David Drebin: The Power of Belief, Embracing Fears and Attracting Success in Art

concept that I've been thinking about a lot lately is chasing butterflies and building Gardens I was with a friend the other day and it was a beautiful day let's try to catch some butterflies today and we were walking down the street and we saw a few butterflies but there was no chance that we could ever catch them so then I said why do we build this beautiful garden and the concept of building a garden to attract the butterflies as opposed to chasing the butterflies it's something that I've thought about a lot lately is I'm not a thirsty desperate person I believe in building yourself and everything will come once you attract the right energy and the Right audience for the band that you built which is yourself [Music] [Music] thank you welcome to Super entrepreneurs podcast I'm your host Shahid durani today we have with us David drebin David is an internationally renowned and New York City based photographer and multidisciplinary artists working in various art forms producing limited edition Works including photographs light boxes neon light installation sculptures and etchings on glass Welcome to our show David thank you I hope you can't hear the music of playing in the background you can't hear the music at all can you yeah very slight it's actually a nice Ambiance that yeah it's a very tranquilo music that I use every day to transform myself let's talk about that a little bit what do you mean transform yourself I feel like when we wake up in the morning we're extremely raw and then we have to get into that zone where we're ready for the day and I use music to complement my thoughts so I can interact with different energy all day long around the world so I use music to get me into that zone very mellow music ambient Dreamscapes and musical therapy so it's very dreamy that's how you can create the creative work that you create actually when I make work I actually don't really use music it's when I'm dealing with energy and people and my manufacturers and my Distributors around the world that's when I need to have this kind of mellow music but when I'm actually creating the art forms themselves I actually like to make the work in silence Yes Albert Einstein used to say that all the information that I'm receiving it's not through my thinking is through my quietness the Stillness definitely yeah what do you do exactly to calm yourself to become in that creative state a lot of breathing exercises too I get myself I feel like I'm a boxer walking down the out of the tunnel into the ring climbing into the ring and then I go to work so I have a whole routine to get me into that mood so I can deal with interacting with people because interacting with people is a real skill and it's probably the greatest skill that you can learn is communication and understanding other people a lot of people don't think that way they think it's about other people understanding them yes but for me it's all about understanding other people so I have to get into that zone where I'm in a compassionate State of Mind where I'm in interacting with other people thinking what can I do for you today what can I do for you when we wake up in the morning we think what can they do for me but you have to transform that into what can I do for you yeah yeah and we're basically in a way very careful about what others think about us and what others can do for us right it's always out there but when we start becoming more self-aware and we start looking in the mirror more and seeing what we can do for the world or people it changes a lot in relationships change a lot you want to know what I think about you in the three minutes that we've been interacting do you want me to tell you what I think about you sir I've got psychic qualities too and I use that to my advantage when they come to me you're a very calming person you're very calm thank you and I think that you're very compassionate and you're really interested in other people and that's what makes you special is your calmness and your interest in others am I right am I somewhat right yeah you're dead on because I was never like this before to be honest it wasn't there's nothing calm about me actually it was just a ticking Time Bomb I went through a transformation of my mindset transformation to get to this level it took some years and a lot of work on consistent work on a daily basis and that's what I fell in love with now I help others do the same but that's just my passion now because I feel calmness creates like my mentor used to say and the calmness actually allows you to do so much more you would think Communists will slow you down but it's actually the opposite I agree yeah so with your capabilities or your skills produce these limited edition work across the world how has the entrepreneurship mindset like how did that influence the ability to navigate and succeed in this artistic landscape I always believe that I had something that I could offer the world that the world wanted to see specific types of people wanted to acquire and visualize the kind of work that I make on their walls all over their all over the world I never really had a business plan but I knew I had a purpose and through my purpose my business developed but I didn't start this with a business plan I started with first you find the purpose first you figure out why which is something you have to really dig deep to figure out what your why is and then once you are 100 sure of what your why is then over time you figure out your how for me it's always been why then how and when I look at other people I think what is your why and then what is your how are you doing what you're doing and how are you going to do what you're doing I was chatting with another guest of mine yesterday and we were having a similar conversation about people that actually create success or get better results are the ones that have actually found that purpose what's that why that big beautiful why and it became part of them like as part of their DNA now and the way that type of person operates even the how becomes so much easier and more available to the individual so I absolutely agree yeah I feel very lucky that I found my why at somewhat of an early age and then I've been working on my house for many years so when I think patience is a big part of it and I think young people today they want to they want to get rich fast and they don't have the patience to persevere or over a sustained period of time and things take time things take time things take time yeah and that's where that calmness and patience comes into the picture just having that faith and how was your faith throughout your career like when you first started doing this if you don't mind sharing that specific story as well how all this transpired what was that what was that transformation in your life that got you there first of all you know what faith stands for finally allowing it to happen that's what faith is oh finally allowing I didn't know that so it's like impossible means impossible not to be cliche so for me I always had a vision and my biggest battle was to convince others to see the vision that I always had for myself and for them and for us so I'm always thinking about how can we do great things together not how can I do great things yes I love that actually that's how I operate this show with my guests in the audience I call it hashtag let's grow together and that's actually been the reason why we're seeing the growth is because of that we just bring everyone together we do everything that exposure that growth we do it together there's no competition or anything yes I know I do a lot of podcasts and people ask me how did you get started and what's the process been like for you and how much adversity have you experienced but we all go through the same thing I get the same questions so often but I'll come down to why and how and time and finding the right people and seizing the opportunities in front of you and knowing what the good ones are and having the foresight to understand what the bad ones are learning from your mistakes friends can become strangers strangers can become friends because embracing everything the wins the losses the whole it's just the life experience is a combination of winning and losing and gladness and sadness and gladness it's beautiful man is beautiful the good and bad law of polarity in our Dimension is basically that right there's good and bad in everything like how do you see the world and how do you see your life and how do you see your day-to-day and every moment that you're awake how do you see things how do you interact with people it makes a huge difference do you like talking to me so far or what oh man it's been great you got an amazing view you're very easy to speak to I could see that building relationships is second nature to you these are my feelings my vibrational pickups that I'm getting is that you're very strict about keeping your word and you really want to connect with people's heart I don't know my thinking yeah I'm very loyal when it comes to business extremely loyal I expect other people to not be loyal to me so just a matter of time before that expectation can either happen or which won't surprise me or they become loyal and show me their loyal which is a beautiful surprise when people are as loyal to me as I am to them when it comes to business it's a beautiful surprise but when they betray me I don't want to get that disappointed because that's what I expect in the very beginning yes so it's okay so it doesn't affect you emotionally right not now it took me two decades to come up with this concept so this is awesome yeah you worked on yourself too yeah that case of disappointment turning into men of minimizing expectations of other people so low that if they actually come through and they're loyal What a Beautiful Surprise yeah yeah no it's so true true my process of evolution in my mind I realized that being comfortable with what is and not getting connected to everything that happens our life just appreciating it and we're not trying to make something change change the uncontrollable or put energy there that's the biggest lesson I learned and that's what you're actually referring to as well you just don't get attached don't expect just be okay yes just be okay that's awesome that's awesome so you gain International recognition right some insights you can share on strategies or approaches that you have used to Market yourself and your work on a global scale hello ladies and gentlemen I just wanted to quickly interrupt today's episode to announce something really exciting I'm doing a five-day live launch July 3rd to July 7th at 10 A.M Eastern Standard Time and it's called DIY do it yourself Studio grade podcast and TV under a hundred dollars using AI I'm blown away at what is happening in my world and I wanted to share with you all if you're a business owner if you're an entrepreneur I'm going to share everything in this event you're going to absolutely love it and I would love for you to be there register via the link in the show notes and then join the private Facebook group called mindset for business success thank you so much everyone and back to today's episode bye what's interesting is before our call I was reading some of my diary entries from 25 years ago about the struggle and hopefully one day I will look back and those years of struggle would strike me as the most beautiful literally I was looking at my diary entries over here I'll show you hold on a second I have these Pages pages and things of of diary entries from the late 90s about how my future self would thank me for writing how I felt in that moment and everything that I imagined back then actually came true for me but not how I that's amazing because if you want to make God laugh tell them your plans and it happened for me but not how I expected it but way better than I ever could have imagined because I was always on that path to create and distribute first you have to build the band build yourself and then you gotta build the audience for the band that you built and that's always been my thinking so you are basically living from the end you're already feeling who that person is my future yeah this is very interesting because this is exactly how we help people this is an exact concept is that you remove all that forcefulness all that having to get you're actually like the magnet the negative to negative it pulls away from each other you have that effect on your results so when you believe that you already have it they call it act as if or feel as if within that you already have it you're operating at a higher frequency higher vibrational frequency you're basically inviting everything that you want without having that stress or pressure that you're putting out there right that oh I gotta get this I gotta make it happen you're already there and you see Things fall into place the concept that I've been thinking about a lot lately is chasing butterflies and building Gardens so I was with a friend the other day and I it was a beautiful day I said let's try to let's try to catch some butterflies today and we were walking down the street and we saw a few butterflies but there was no chance that we could ever catch them so then I said why do we build this beautiful garden and the concept of building a garden to attract the butterflies as opposed to chasing the butterflies is I'm not a thirsty desperate person I believe in building yourself and everything will come once you attract the right energy and the Right audience for the band that you built which is yourself yeah everything is energy my man and once you tune into that level of energy you start attracting it my real dream is actually public speaking not making artwork oh I love making photographs and diamond dust prints and Neons and sculptures and lenticulars but my real passion is to do public speaking and I would do public speaking for free with no notes I don't need any notes I would just get up on the stage feel the audience and the reason why I want to do that is because that's my biggest fear what's my biggest fear public speaking and so many people are scared of public speaking and I love it yeah I love being scared and my opening line would be wow I'm so scared right now to be on stage and that's when you have the audience in your hand when you show vulnerability yeah that's amazing so are you taking actual action like steps to go that route what's interesting is I've done a lot of public speaking but I never thought about tape recording myself it just never crossed my mind so now I've been talking to different agencies and they're saying to me do you have any videos of the public speaking in my responses I've never actually done any but I'm about to I'm about to run a book tour and I'm gonna set up video and how myself record it all it takes is 10 minutes because I just want to just know that you're good at it because it's all about being vulnerable I just know I know it would be so easy for me especially if I had a tough crowd I love a tough crowd haters no problem I can speak to thousands of haters me against thousands of haters as long as they stayed in the room I would love that I love that that comes from that calmness that you have as well right is that when you don't fear and you're comfortable with being uncomfortable that comes from calmness comfortably uncomfortable my man comfortable uncomfortable you collaborated with the prestigious galleries like Contessa Gallery right I believe and how do you approach building those relationships with the stakeholders in that world of Art and then creating those Partnerships comes down to first creating the band and then to finding the audience for the band and galleries to me awesome are the bridge between me the band and the audience because I don't sell my work directly I'm in the third party validation business so I had to find people who would be in the third party validation business to be the bridge between me and my art collectors my audience all over the world David can you share with us what you feel your innermost superpower is that got you to this point in your life that is a great question thank you and I only have a one-word answer and that's Elise love it oh man I can relate so much to you that is such a powerful inner superpower belief that's awesome and some people have it naturally unconscious competence some people have to work on it but that is that force that makes things happen is that belief that's incredible so you believe you're going to be a top public speaker then no I don't think about the result of me being a top public speaker I think about the process of being able to seize any opportunity to share my thoughts and beliefs with either one person or one million people I don't think about the results and where I'm supposed to be I think about where I am and what I would like to do to affect other people and make a dent in the world that's great that's great David I'll tell you man I could talk to you for forever about this stuff because it's hitting close to home here I appreciate your time we keep them at 20 minutes just the way audience likes it they like to see and hear from people around that time frame is there anything else you would like to share as final notes coming on our show with our audience thank you I just hope that if there's at least one person who may be listening or watching who occasionally May laugh belief in themselves that hearing you and I Converse it gives them hope to chase their dreams and believe in themselves do you appreciate you very much definitely keep in touch and thank you for your time today thank you audience once again thank you so much for joining us for another episode you heard David here today take a look at his information in the show notes his website his work you can actually Google him and you'll see all the Fantastic work that he created I believe one of my favorites is the balloons in New York City with this view right here with this video right here with that view right there that was my favorite that I saw so definitely you can browse there's tons and tons of content online that David worked on that created some neon signs as well definitely check out his work get in touch with him if you're looking for a public speaker and you can see you want to bring David on board to see how he can add value to your audience appreciate you guys and especially helping us grow and for everything else that you do thank you and David thank you so much thank you [Music]